256 LAGONOSTICTA SENEGALA 
referred the L. rubricata (uon Licht.), ** Bocage,” Orn. Angola, 
p. 362, and Reichenow, “J. f. O.,” 1877, p. 29; for Dr. 
Reichenow refers Falkenstein’s specimens from Chinchouxo 
to both this species and to L. congica, and I was surprised to 
learn that Béhndorff’s specimen from Leopoldsville, which I 
have not seen, is also referable to L. congica. I should have 
expected to have found that the present species was the 
representative Fire-finch of the Lower Congo district. 
Lagonosticta senegala. 
Fringilla senegala, Linn. §. N. (xii.) i. p. 320 (1766). 
Lagonosticta senegala, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 275 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 427 (1896) ; Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 195 (1904). 
Fringilla ignita, Gm. 5. N. i. p. 906 (1788). 
Fringilla minima, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 183 (1817). 
Lagonosticta minima, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 276 (1890); Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 115, pl. 22, fig. 3 (1894); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 428 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125 (1899) egg; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 341 Niger ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1902, p. 37, 
Togo. 
Fire-bird, Brown, Ill. Zool. pl. 2, fig. 2 (1776). 
Le Petit Sénégaii rouge, Vieill. Ois. Chant. p. 31, pl. 10 (1805). 
Adult male. Mantle brown, with a crimson wash, passing into almost 
uniform crimson on the entire head; lower back, upper tail-coverts and 
incomplete edges to the tail-feathers bright crimson; remainder of tail 
brownish black, wings dark brown, with the outer edges of the quills and the 
coverts paler, the latter slightly washed with crimson; sides of head and 
neck, chin, throat and chest crimson, shading into brown, of a somewhat 
variable shade, on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; on the sides of 
chest generally, but not always, a variable number of small white spots. 
Iris reddish brown ; eyelids yellow; bill red, with the tip, culmen, edges 
of upper mandible and the keel black; tarsi and feet dusky brown. Total 
length 3-5 inches, culmen 0°35, wing 2:0, tail 1:5, tarsus 0°5. Sierra Leone 
(Kemp). 
Adult female. Differs in being earth brown, paler below and inclining to 
brownish buff down the centre of the breast, on the abdomen and under 
tail-coverts; head in front of the eyes crimson or strongly washed with that 
